Makedonas

We are the first team through to the SFs It's our 5th time making the World Championships SFs, but we've never made the final. There is a first time for everything

Tsitsipas and Sakkari both won their first round matches, it's actually the first time ever at Wimbledon (Tsitsipas lost first round in 2021/2019/2017 and Sakkari lost first round in 2018 - the only previous time Tsitsipas won)

Very disappointing performance last night from our girls There is still some Greek interest in the semifinals, as the Netherlands have a Greek coach and Haralabidis on the US (who scored 6 goals against Spain in QF) is Greek and used to play for our national team. Also I thought it was just Parkes from New Zealand, but I see that Hungary also has a girl from Slovakia and a girl from France on their team.

https://sportsfeed.gr/latreia-gia-tentogloy-photofeed/ You can see some photos here, of the crowds for Tentoglou

Top 20 - 2022 Women's Pole Vault 1. Ekaterini Stefanidi (1990) 2022-4.65 PB-4.91 (2017) 2. Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou (1986) 2022-4.50 PB-4.83 (2015) 2. Eleni Polak (1996) 2022-4.50 PB-4.71i (2021) 4. Ariadni Adamopoulou (2000) 2022-4.37i =PB (2021) 5. Anastasia Retsa (2003) 2022-4.15 PB 5. Iliana Triantafyllou (2005) 2022-4.15 PB 7. Alina-Amalia Florou-Dimitriadou (2004) 2022-4.10 PB 8. Ekaterini Vagena (1995) 2022-4.09 PB-4.25 (2021) 9. Myrto Kassotaki (1999) 2022-4.00 =PB (2018, 2019) 9. Eva Kotsacheili (2001) 2022-4.00 PB 11. Iro Vradi (2004) 2022-3.95 PB 12. Evgenia-Maria Panagiotou (2006) 2022-3.85 PB 13. Petroula Voltea (2006) 2022-3.80 PB 13. Nefeli-Evdoxia Sklavounou (2003) 2022-3.80 PB-3.85 (2020) 15. Milena Postika (2002) 2022-3.75i PB-4.00 (2018, 2019, 2020i, 2021) 16. Anastasia Bouboulidi (2008) 2022-3.70 PB 17. Emine Topal (2004) 2022-3.60 PB-3.72 (2021) 17. Markella-Theopoula Theodoridou (1999) 2022-3.60 PB-3.80 (2019) 19. Konstantina-Kalliopi Lathoura (2002) 2022-3.50 PB-3.85 (2019) 19. Georgia Tranou (2008) 2022-3.50 PB

Correction @Olympian1010 only Chrysochos was top 20, but both made the Australian Open junior quarterfinals. Efstathiou peaked at number 42 in the junior rankings despite making the Australian quarterfinals and US Open round of 16 in the same year. (Yes I just fact checked myself )

Chrysochos and Efstathiou were both top 20 juniors and made the Australian Open quarterfinals

Δυστυχώς ο Χρήστου έχει συνηθίσει να κάνει την καλύτερη του κούρσα στους ημιτελικούς και όχι στους τελικούς… Ο 18χρόνος Σταμου φαίνεται να έχει μέλλον. Κολύμπησε τα 100 πεταλούδα σε 52.77 και έγινε Νο.3 όλων των εποχών στην Ελλάδα (το πανελλήνιο ρεκόρ είναι 52.41). Ο Σταμου πήγε στη Βουδαπέστη με ατομικό ρεκόρ 53.05, ενώ πριν από 4 μήνες το ατομικό του ρεκόρ ήταν 54.43… Η Ντουντουνακη πρέπει κάποια στιγμή να μπει σε μεγάλο τελικό. Πέρυσι 9η στα 100 πεταλούδα στους Ολυμπιακούς, έχασε την πρόκριση για .06. Φετος στο Παγκοσπιο πάλι 9η στα 100 πεταλούδα και έχασε την πρόκριση για .02. Ακόμα και στα 50 πεταλούδα, τερμάτισε 10η και έχασε την πρόκριση για .14. Το καλό είναι ότι έχει βελτιωθεί πάρα πολύ. Στα 100 πεταλούδα, ήταν 23η το 2015 (Παγκόσμιο), 17η το 2016 (Ολυμπιακούς), 22η το 2017 (Παγκόσμιο), 15η το 2019 (Παγκόσμιο), 9η το 2021 (Ολυμπιακούς) και 9η το 2022 (Παγκόσμιο).

I got to attend the Greek National Championships this past weekend! It was a great experience for me. We hadn’t had anything important in Thessaloniki in athletics since the 2009 World Athletics Final, which I remember wanting to go to but did not (I was a lot younger). We had the U20 National Championships last year and I could not go that weekend although it went well so now we got the National Championships for seniors. The stadium seats 28.000 so it was going to be hard to fill obviously, but it’s located very close to the city centre so it’s easily accessible. I’m not sure how it is in other countries but for Greece these were decent crowds for athletics. I wasn’t sure what to expect but I think if we host again next year it will be even better. They are saying we want to host something bigger in the future. It’s a nice stadium and the local football club that uses it hasn’t been in the first division for several years so we might as well. Tentoglou was definitely the highlight (he won with a wind assisted 8.32) and the crowds were really big for his jumps, everyone went close to the sand pit. The women’s pole vault was disappointing. Stefanidi didn’t compete, Kyriakopoulou NM and Polak won with an abysmal 4.25. However we did have a 17 yo local girl (Iliana Triantafyllou) set a new PB of 4.15 (she previously had 4.13 from last week’s U20 National Championships) so that is quite exciting. Men’s triple jump we had 40 yo Tsiamis win for the 100th time. He only had one valid jump and it was 16.82. The men’s hammer was also cool with 5 guys over 70m including a 19 yo (Ioannis Korakidis). Frantzeskakis won with 77.95. Stamatia Scarvelis won the women’s with 70.31, which confirms that she will be in Eugene. She’s had many throws this year over 70m, but all were in small events that didn’t give many points until the last two weekends as she won the Balkans and Nationals. Karalis and Tzengko won their events but were far from their best. The men’s 100m was really impressive with a lot of guys getting good times, most of them very young too. The women’s sprints were disappointing as we have three “stars” but only one competed in each event. Spanoudaki has covid, Emmanouilidou just came back from injury and only ran the 100, and Anastasiou only ran the 200. The women’s 400 was nice. Vasiliou won with 52.32 after not competing in this distance since Tokyo, and 34 yo Ferra with a new PB after so many years (53.19). The women’s 100 hurdles was another good event, as we got to see the young Karagianni vs. experienced Pesiridou. Karagianni beat her at the Balkans but Pesiridou got revenge here (13.18 and Karagianni had 13.21). The men’s 110 hurdles, women’s discus, women’s 400 hurdles, men’s high jump, men’s javelin, women’s shot put were all boring with one clear favourite winning as expected. The men’s shot put, men’s discus and women’s high jump each had several contenders and should have been interesting but in the end the performances were much lower than expected. The women’s triple jump was really poor (Papachristou either quietly retired or is pregnant again and Karydi seems to be regressing). The women’s long jump was somewhat interesting with a lot of young talents who are decent but nothing special. A local girl (Vasiliki Chaitidou) won it with 6.47 which is close to her PR of 6.49. Her progression has been impressive. 5.79 in 2019, 6.08 in 2020, 6.24 in 2021 and now 6.49 in 2022. I'm trying to post some photos but it says the files are too big.

So we will play against the Dutch, who have a Greek coach. He said in an interview on a Greek site that his two biggest wins as a coach were both against Greece (2018 European Championships final and 2020 Olympic qualifier playoff when we choked our lead and failed to score a single goal in the third and fourth periods...) Our team is doing great but I just wonder if we could be doing even better with Diamantopoulou and Eleftheriadou, who both skipped the tournament due to "personal reasons." There might be more to it as Diamantopoulou wasn't competing in the World League this year either. Stamatopoulou is a great replacement in goal for Diamantopoulou though, and the three Plevritou sisters are doing great as is Xenaki. And the young girls like Myriokefalitaki and Ninou are stepping up as they should. Actually, 27 yo Margarita Plevritou and 25 yo Eleftheria Plevritou are the oldest players on the team, everyone else is 24 or younger. Even if Diamantopoulou played, she's only 26 (and Eleftheriadou is 24) so no matter what at least we can be positive about our young team.

Team Hellas is perfect

Really happy that both our teams won their groups, especially since they both had draws (it feels like we always lose out on GD in these situations in all sports, so I'm surprised it worked out in our favour for once). Tbh we should've beaten Croatia and our women should've beaten Spain so it's pretty nice, especially as our teams are quite young. I don't want to underestimate AUS/USA although another medal here after one in Tokyo last year would be quite special!

Apostolos Christou 4th in the men's 50 backstroke (after finishing 5th in the 100). Another great result for Greek swimming, but once again he swam faster in the semifinal than in the final

Not a real event, but 38 yo Antigoni Drisbioti became the oldest Greek to set a national record, this time in the 5000m walk (she also did it earlier this year in the new 35k walk as a 37 yo). With 21:06.40, she broke Christina Deskou's record from 1999 (21:37.78).

9th time in a row that our girls are through to the quarterfinals We needed to beat France by 11 or more. We led 13-4 with less than two minutes to go, then our 17 yo Christina Siouti and 19 yo Eirini Ninou each scored to make it 15-4 and give us first place in the group

It's surprising that each country can only send two participants in each event instead of three. Was it always this way? I don't remember. The Greek team consists of 48 athletes in total. We had around 80 with standards. In some events we had 7 or 8 with standards but only two got selected due to these limits

Rafailia Spanoudaki is out. She just tested positive for Covid, so she will miss the Greek National Championships this weekend. She would've been the heavy favourite to win both the 100m and 200m, which would have given her a lot of points to move up in the Race to Oregon ranking and probably she would've qualified in the 200m. I think this might be the first time ever where we don't qualify anyone in a women's track event, or any track event for that matter. The only chance is for one of our young hurdlers (Anais Karagianni in 100H and Dimitra Gnafaki in 400H) to get a big PR this weekend and sneak in via ranking. And both already got PRs recently (Karagianni has gone from 13.31 to 13.15 this season, and Gnafaki from 57.00 to 56.67), so I'm not sure how realistic it is that they'll be able to improve so much in so little time.

Another bronze for Platanioti

2022 Wimbledon Women's singles qualifying: First round: Priscilla Hon AUS d. Valentini Grammatikopoulou GRE 2-6 6-4 7-5 First round: (22) Despina Papamichail GRE d. Eva Lys GER 3-6 6-3 6-2 Second round: Natalija Stevanovic SRB d. (22) Despina Papamichail GRE 6-2 6-4

Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament Preliminary Round - Group D 10 - 10 Kserei kaneis giati leipei h Eleftheriadou apo thn fetinh omada?

So just like London and Rio, our promising young rowing team from Tokyo is starting to fall apart... To recap, we had: A 24 yo win gold in M1X (Stefanos Ntouskos) A 22 yo finish 10th in W1X (Anneta Kyridou) Two 20 yos finish 5th in W2- (Christina Bourmpou and Maria Kyridou) The Kyridou sisters have both been banned from the national team because their mother posts in a Facebook group criticising the federation... Meanwhile the sisters have been training hard all year long in the women's pair together and we won't even get to see them in any competition. They would have a good chance to win a medal in Paris you would think. Such an embarrassing disgrace what is happening. The federation is a joke...

8-8 A bit disappointing, we led 4-1 after the first period but allowed Croatia to come back. It's not a horrible result although it's a bit disappointing. Also seems like this Russian player Croatia naturalised is really making a difference for them.

Eixame 4-1 meta to prwto oktalepto...telos pantwn einai kalo apotelesma an kai mporousame na paroume th nikh...

The Greek sisters competing for Austria who weren't good enough for our team several years ago, are now doing better than our girls